While
on the campaign trail in 2016, Donald Trump told his
supporters at a rally in South Carolina, ”I’m very highly educated. I know
words, I know the best words. But there’s no better word than stupid.”
Trump
was referring to President Barack Obama as ‘stupid.’
However,
Obama will be looked back fondly in history as probably one of our greatest
presidents, a great orator who inspired the masses, and Trump will not.
In January, Trump began receiving his intelligence
briefings and his team made a request for fewer words to be used and instead,
to use more pictures.
The president, they said, was a visual and auditory learner. Would the briefers please cut down on the number of words in the daily briefing book and instead use more graphics and pictures?Similarly, after Trump entered office, his staff took President Barack Obama’s Syria contingency plans and broke the intelligence down into more-digestible bites, complete with photos, according to current and former U.S. officials with knowledge of the request.
According to senior administration
officials and members of Congress who spoke with Trump, it was the image of
young, listless children being splashed with water in a frantic attempt to
cleanse them of the nerve agent and another one of an anguished father holding
his twin babies, swathed in soft white fabric, poisoned to death, that prompted
the alleged president to take action after watching cable news.
Trump allegedly told his senior
staff that the images and footage of what was taking place in Syria was
“horrible” and “awful.”
We can agree that it is, however, it’s
more likely that Trump is using this as a distraction. After all, this widely
circulated photograph of Alan Kurdi, a young refugee child who drowned to
death, apparently never disturbed Donald Trump.
Trump was also opposed to Obama’s attempt to strike Syria when a
sarin nerve gas attack left more than 1,400 dead outside of Damascus in 2013.
There were images of children who were victims of that gas attack were reported
online and on the news, too.
Quick question: Ever since Trump
ordered a strike on Syria, how much of the news cycle has covered his
administration’s ties to Russia? Or his conflicts of interest, etc, etc, etc.
Author Conover Kennard makes tea partiers
cry as a hobby. She was Commander of Jade Helm15 during the failed takeover of
the South. She's also one of the biggest arseholes on Twitter. At night, she
can be found drinking Conservative tears while pulling off the wings of flies
just because she can. She is the founder of a Marxist, Commie, Maoist,
Socialist site and has contributed to several other sites, blah blah blah. She
is an awful person but she doesn't like to brag about that.